NVIDIA have a new official forum post up detailing the the state of Wayland on their Linux drivers, along with plans for upcoming features. Really nice to see NVIDIA being more open on their communication. Written up by NVIDIA dev Aaron… Article Source https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/nvidia-detail-upcoming-linux-driver-features-for-wayland-and-explain-current-support/
Longtime NVIDIA Linux engineer Aaron Plattner shared a status update on Friday around the current feature parity difference between the NVIDIA driver stack on X11 and under (X)Wayland. Plattner outlined some of the driver features currently not… Article Source https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Wayland-Driver-Plans-24
The Google Chrome/Chromium web browser code has merged support for linux_drm_syncobj_v1 as the modern Wayland protocol for explicit buffer synchronization. Going along with other apps and desktops supporting this means of explicit buffer… Article Source https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Chrome-linux-drm-syncobj
The first NVIDIA R565 series Linux driver beta was released this morning in the form of the NVIDIA 565.57.01 driver release. The NVIDIA 565.57.01 beta brings a number of new features, improvements to existing features, and various… Article Source https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-565.57.01-Linux-Beta
NVIDIA today released two new Linux drivers. The big one is the NVIDIA 565.57.01 Beta, along with a one-liner update in the stable 550.127.05 release. The stable release driver 550.127.05 mentions “Fixed a bug which could cause applications… Article Source https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/nvidia-565-57-01-beta-has-wayland-and-hdr-improvements-plus-dxvk-and-vkd3d-optimizations/
At the X.Org Developer’s Conference (XDC 2024) happening this week in Montreal, NVIDIA shared a road-map around their Wayland plans as well as encouraging Wayland compositors to target the Vulkan API. Austin Shafer and James Jones of the NVIDIA… Article Source https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Wayland-Roadmap-2024
NVIDIA has released the stable version 555.58 of its graphics driver for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris platforms with significant new features. The update includes explicit GPU synchronization support for Wayland via the linux-drm-syncobj-v1 protocol, which is key for NVIDIA GPU users looking to use Wayland without graphical glitches. Additionally, the driver offers GSP firmware support, … Read more
NVIDIA has recently released version 555.58 of their Linux graphics driver, which includes new features such as explicit sync on Wayland. This update marks an important milestone in the ongoing development of NVIDIA’s support for the Linux platform. Explicit sync on Wayland allows for better synchronization between the graphics driver and the display server, resulting … Read more
The latest stable update to NVIDIA’s proprietary driver for Linux, version 555.58, introduces Wayland Explicit Sync. This update follows the previous beta versions 555.42.02 and 555.52.04, which included minor bug fixes and improvements. With this release, users should now be able to confidently use Wayland on NVIDIA GPUs. Some key changes and improvements in the … Read more
The NVIDIA 555.58 driver for Linux has been released as the first stable version of the R555 driver series. This driver offers explicit Wayland sync support, improved Wayland stability, and GSP firmware used by default on newer GPUs with a GPU system processor. The driver entered beta last month and a stable version has now … Read more